Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, WY

At BLM's Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, you can imagine yourself walking along an ocean shoreline 165 million years ago with dozens or hundreds of other dinosaurs, looking to pick up a bite of lunch from what washed up on the last high tide. The ground is soft and your feet sink down in the thick ooze, leaving a clear footprint of every step you take.

The recent discovery of rare fossil footprints on public lands near the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway close to Shell, Wyo., could alter current views about the Sundance Formation and the paleoenvironment of the Middle Jurassic Period.